69novels Chapter 202 Doubt
Chapter 202 Doubt
Li Lijuan left in a hurry and left a lot of things behind, but after so many years, many things have disappeared.
The only thing left is the box left by Li's mother, which contains the textbooks and books used by her daughter back then, and a thin notebook.
Seeing things and thinking about people, Li's mother opened the book, and there was a photo inside, she took a look, and tears fell again.
Wiping away her tears, she pushed the notebook over: "This is a photo left by your mother. It was rare to take pictures at that time, and there was only this one."
The photos clipped in the notebook are well preserved, but the photos have turned yellow for too long.
The twins looked at the same time. The mother in the photo had a serious face and a stiff and uncomfortable smile. Even so, it couldn't hide her youthful beauty at that time.
"So my mother looks like this..." Gu Liangxing touched the photo subconsciously.
In the mouths of the aunts, the mother seems to be gentle and loving, but in the photo she is a little shy and young.
Mother Li said with some regret: "Your mother has grown up well since she was a child, and she has a sweet mouth. At that time, I took her out to buy vegetables, and she was willing to give an extra handful of green onions."
"She is beautiful and smart, and later she went to high school. She thought she could be admitted to a factory after graduation. Who knew..."
After saying this, Li's mother knew that she had made a slip of the tongue, and hurriedly explained: "Grandma didn't say that your father is bad, but just felt that luck was playing tricks on others."
Gu Liangchen suddenly raised his head and asked, "Then why did she marry my father?"
Li's mother was taken aback, and looked up at her grandson, only to see that his eyes were dark and bright. She felt a little uncomfortable in her heart, so she just said, "Young girl and young man are right."
She obviously didn't want to talk about the past, so she took out all the books in the box: "These are the books left by your mother. She loves to read, so she saved her pocket money and bought them back."
Touching a book, Li's mother couldn't help thinking that if her daughter hadn't been allowed to read so many books back then, maybe it would have been different.
Gu Liangxing opened it and was a little surprised: "This is an English book."
Looking carefully, many books have been torn to pieces, but they have been mended with paste.
Li's mother explained: "Yes, I didn't dare to show these books a few years ago. If people saw them, they would be reported."
"When your mother just left, your grandma got angry and tore up all her books. Later, she regretted and picked them up again, but many of them were still missing." Li Libin said next to her.
Mother Li lowered her head and did not deny it.
The twins flipped through the books slowly. Li Lijuan obviously cherished these books back then. Occasionally there were beautiful notes on them, which showed that their mother really loved reading.
"What is this?" Gu Liangxing flipped through the pages overnight, his fingers stopped.
Gu Liangchen leaned over to take a look, and there was a poem written on that page: "Cherish your heart and don't spit it out lightly, and teach peaches and plums to make spring breeze."
Apart from this line of poem which has nothing to do with the content of the textbook, there is nothing special about this English book.
After a while, Gu Liangxing said, "Can we take this photo away?"
Mother Li hesitated for a moment, but still said: "Take it away, it should be left to you."
Besides this, she didn't know what else to give them.
"Auntie said, Mom wrote a letter and sent it after she was in poor health. Did you really not receive it?" Gu Liangchen asked.
Mother Li was taken aback, Li Libin also frowned and said, "We didn't receive it."
Mother Li sighed: "Maybe it was lost, it's been so many years, it's too late to say this now."
The four were relatively silent. The twins only wanted a photo, and quickly got up to say goodbye.
Mother Li hurriedly asked to stay, saying that she would make a delicious meal for her two grandchildren.
Naturally, the twins would not stay. After all, Li Libin sent them downstairs.
Before leaving, Li Libin asked: "Can I tell you the address of your home? I want to visit her someday when I'm free."
Gu Liangxing glanced at his younger brother, but still left the address.
After leaving the Li family, the two brothers frowned. After coming this time, they felt even more hopeless.
Gu Liangxing sighed: "Both Mom and Li's family are different from what I thought."
"I thought she must look like Fourth Aunt, she looks like a good wife and mother, who knows..."
Gu Liangxing muttered endlessly, but he didn't see his younger brother talking, so he stretched out his hand and pushed: "Ah Chen, why don't you talk?"
Gu Liangchen stopped in his tracks, raised his head and asked, "Do you feel that the two of them are acting very differently?"
"What's wrong?" Gu Liangxing asked suspiciously.
"Think about it, if in the future Xiaoyun fell in love with a man, broke up with our family because of him, left home for more than ten years and didn't come back, died without hearing from her, and her child came to the door after many years, what would you do?"
Gu Liangxing's hair was about to stand on end: "What are you talking about, Xiaoyun is so obedient, how could she break up with our family because of a man and not come back?"
"I mean for example, for example, don't you understand?"
"For example, it doesn't work. If she really dares to do this, let's see if I don't beat that brat to death."
Gu Liangchen glanced at him: "That's right, even if it's not this man who comes to the door in the future, but Xiaoyun's child, our nephew, can you accept it happily?"
Another premise is that the nephew came by himself, and their mother is dead.
Gu Liangxing rolled his eyes: "Gu Liangchen, can you speak well, why use Xiaoyun as an example, it's unlucky."
Thinking of her well-behaved and sensible little Yun'er, who was obedient since she was a child, was cheated away by a man for many years, died in a place she didn't know, and didn't even see her for the last time, Gu Liangxing wanted to kill someone angrily.
But soon, he came back to his senses and realized that something was wrong.
"Yeah, why is that?"
Gu Liangxing kept turning in circles, and kept saying, "It's not right, it's really not right."
"Before the two of us came to the door, we were already prepared to be kicked out. After all, our parents said they were in free love, but in fact it was not far from elopement. How can the Li family give us good looks?"
Gu Liangchen reminded: "Besides, our mother died for many years before we came to recognize our relatives."
Gu Liangxing clapped his hands: "Yes, why didn't you scold us?"
"Not even scolding Dad much."
When the two of them thought about it, only Li Libin showed his hatred for his brother-in-law when he first entered the door, and he never showed it afterward.
And Li's mother's reaction was even more strange. The good daughter married and left with the poor boy. She hadn't returned home for decades, and now she returned home with the news of her death. She looked devastated, but didn't say a word about her son-in-law.
"Do you think it's because Mom passed away early, and after so many years, the anger in their hearts has disappeared, and they even feel guilty because of what happened back then, so they entertained us in a good manner?"
Gu Liangchen asked back: "Do you think it's reasonable?"
Gu Liangxing felt that it was unreasonable after he finished speaking. Maybe his anger would disappear after a long time, but the daughter and sister whom he had always cared about died, how could they be indifferent.
Looking at Li's mother and Li Libin just now, it doesn't look like they have no feelings for their dead mother.
Because of this, their performance is too forgiving.
The two brothers looked at each other, and after a long while, Gu Liangxing said: "Could it be that the Li family was sorry for our mother and forced her to run away from home, so now I regret it?"
The more he thought about it, the more he felt that this was the case, and continued: "It is very likely that this is the case. The Li family must have made a mistake first, that's why we were so polite this morning. They must not say what they did wrong."
Gu Liangchen subdued his elder brother's brain circuit and reminded: "They all said that they drove away my daughter back then and didn't let her come back. What else can I hide?"
"That's right." Gu Liangxing was a little confused, "Then why?"
Gu Liangchen also couldn't figure it out: "I can't figure it out either, but I always feel that something is wrong."
"I said, Ah Chen, are you suspicious? What's wrong with this? The same rice supports all kinds of people. Could it be that you like being kicked out today?"
Gu Liangchen thought about it, and didn't continue talking.
When the two brothers returned to the dormitory one after the other, Gu Mingnan was waiting. When he saw them, he asked, "How is it? Does it make sense there?"
Gu Liangchen's eyes flashed, and he said, "Second Uncle..."
He put on a depressed look, and Gu Liangxing, who was behind him, received the signal from his younger brother, and immediately sighed too, and said quietly, "Hey, don't mention it."
"what happened?"
Gu Mingnan became anxious: "Could it be that their family still dare to beat and scold you?"
"That's not true." Gu Liangchen said, "It's just talking about something from the past. After listening to it, I don't know what to do now."
"What?" Gu Mingnan's heart skipped a beat, and he secretly thought that the Li family would not be so stupid as to tell the two children exactly what happened back then, right?
But soon, Gu Mingnan realized that something was wrong. He glanced at the two eldest nephews. Although they both looked listless, they seemed to be in good spirits.
No matter how you look at it, it doesn't seem like you know the truth.
Gu Mingnan judged others by himself, and felt that if the two of them knew that they were not their own, they would be heartbroken right now, how could they be so calm.
With a change of mind, Gu Mingnan patted the backs of the two eldest nephews, and comforted him: "Things have passed for so many years, and they had nothing to do with you at first. They can talk if they want to talk, and you can listen to it if you like, don't you?" Don’t come here after listening to it.”
Gu Liangxing said in surprise: "Second Uncle, do you know what we are talking about?"
"Isn't it because your father married someone away and hasn't come back all these years?" Gu Mingnan asked back, "Could it be that there are other things besides this?"
The twins were turned against the general, so they had to shake their heads: "No, I just said this."
Gu Mingnan smiled, and said: "For relatives, if you have a good relationship, you will go out more, and if you have a bad relationship, you will not contact them."
"I know you're thinking about grandma and uncle, but look at our brothers, who cut off ties with uncle in the early years, and are living well now."
After finishing speaking, he said: "I'm tired today, you take a break, I will go to the cafeteria to bring back the food."
As soon as he left, Gu Liangxing said, "Look, I said that you think too much, and that's the only thing you come and go."
Gu Liangchen frowned and didn't speak.
Gu Liangxing found the photo and looked at it again, sighed: "Our mother is so good-looking, no wonder our father can't forget her for so many years, because of her, he doesn't want to marry another wife."
"If you ask me, the girls in our production team are scumbags compared to our mother. I can understand dad very well now."
Gu Liangchen said helplessly: "You are almost done."
After finishing their work, the two brothers didn't bother to stay longer in Daishan City, so they went back directly by car that afternoon.
Hurrying quickly, I arrived at the door of the house that night. As soon as I saw the door, Gu Liangxing exaggeratedly shouted: "I'm back, hey, our house is the best. Sleeping in the dormitory last night made my bones hurt." .”
Gu Yun ran out, happy to see them, and gestured: [Second Uncle and Second Aunt, how are you? 】
"Okay, the two of them are disgusting, I don't like to watch them." Gu Liangxing smiled and took out a small gift, "Xiao Yun'er, the hairpin that big brother bought for you, see if you like it."
Gu Yun took it and saw that it was a metal hairpin with a red silk flower on top, which looked very fresh.
"Go and try it on." Gu Liangxing suggested.
Gu Yun ran in and put it on in front of the mirror.
When she came out again, Gu Liangxing praised loudly: "It's beautiful, my sister is the most beautiful in the world."
Gu Liangchen also couldn't help laughing: "It's good-looking, but the main thing is that Xiaoyun is good-looking. As far as your aesthetics are concerned, if it wasn't for our Xiaoyun's good looks, you wouldn't be able to support this gaudy hairpin."
Gu Yun touched her hairpin happily after being praised.
"Dad, did you go to the field?" Gu Liangchen asked.
Gu Yun explained: [In the vegetable garden, Dad said that peanuts are edible, so pull out a few boiled tender peanuts and eat them. 】
"I'll help." The two brothers hurried to the backyard without even drinking their saliva.
The vegetable garden is not far behind the house. Because of the liberalization of the policy in the past two years, the vegetable garden of the old Gu family has more than tripled in size, and it is full of vegetables and fruits.
The peanut field was at the farthest place. When Gu Mingdong bent down and pulled hard, a peanut was pulled up directly, revealing the full fruit underneath.
The peanuts at this time are not too old, but they taste best when used to cook tender peanuts.
"dad!"
Hearing the shout, Gu Mingdong glanced back, saw that they looked good, nodded and said: "I'm back."
"These flowers grow so much." Gu Liangxing said, bending over to pull them out by himself, "I thought our place is not suitable for growing peanuts, but I didn't expect them to grow so well."
Gu Mingdong smiled slightly, hiding his merit and fame.
With the help of his two sons, Gu Mingdong stopped working, and just stood by and instructed them which one to pick.
Soon, they harvested a bunch of peanuts: "Is it enough, our family can't finish eating so much?"
"If you can't finish eating, send some to the third grandpa's house." Gu Liangchen said, "Third grandma lives carefully, so she must not be willing to eat peanuts at this time."
After all, the peanuts will not mature until they grow longer, and they will be called able to squeeze oil and keep them for entertaining guests at the end of the year. Now they are tender, but not full.
Gu Mingdong looked at it and said with a smile, "That's enough, let's go back."
"Dad, let's come and rest." Gu Liangxing hugged Peanut very attentively.
Gu Mingdong glanced at his two sons, and asked slowly, "Have you been to Li's house?"
Gu Liangchen looked at him, trying to see some clues from his face: "Dad, have you already guessed their family's reaction?"
Otherwise, can his father rest assured that the two of them will come to the door recklessly?
Gu Mingdong replied lightly: "I just feel that after so many years, no matter how big the grievances and grievances were before, they have disappeared."
Furthermore, Li Lijuan has been dead for so long, even if the Li family blames their daughter again, they will not even deny their grandson at this moment.
Gu Liangchen felt strange in his heart. He always felt that his father's tone and expression did not seem to show how much love he had for his dead mother. His tone sounded like a calm outsider.
outsider?
Gu Liangchen's heart skipped a beat, and he quickly erased this thought.
Gu Liangxing didn't think too much, nodded and said: "Yes, that's what they said over there. Mom's own mother regretted it a long time ago, saying that she shouldn't be driven away and not let her go back."
"Hey, it would be great if our mother was still alive, maybe the family could be reunited."
"By the way, Dad, the uncle over there said he wanted to come and see Mom, so I left him the address."
Gu Mingdong nodded to show that he understood: "It should."
that's it?
Gu Liangxing couldn't help asking: "Dad, why don't you ask me any more?"
"It's nothing to ask. If both parties are willing, they can be relatives. If they don't want to, forget it."
Gu Liangxing thought about it, and carried peanuts to the front yard.
Gu Yun brought over a bamboo basket and asked them to pick peanuts and throw them into it. She sat down and tried to help, but Gu Liangxing pushed her away: "We can just come, you go and play."
[I've grown up and don't need to go out to play. 】Gu Yun gestured.
"That's not okay, it's so rough to pull peanuts, and you'll get mud under your fingernails later." Gu Liangxing insisted.
He worked with great strength and speed, and soon there were a bunch of peanuts in the bamboo basket.
While shedding the peanuts, Gu Liangxing also boasted: "Our father is amazing. There are quite a few people in the production team who grow peanuts, but the one with so many growths on it must be our family."
Gu Mingdong couldn't help laughing and said, "Then you can eat more later."
"That's for sure." Gu Liangxing said with a smile.
The unripe peanuts are pulled out, and the mud inside is washed away by taking the bamboo basket directly into the water and shaking them vigorously.
Gu Yun cooked carefully, and took a small brush to clean them one by one, making sure that there was no speck of mud on them. She pinched a small bite to make it easier for the taste, and then threw it into the iron pot and started cooking.
At this time, throw all the spices in and cook together, add salt and soy sauce, and when it is cooked, take it out and let it cool down. It is a good bowl of appetizers for wine and rice.
There is no need to wait until dinner, Gu Yun fished out a full basin first, and invited everyone to come and eat and play.
With a light press, the peanut shell opens, revealing the red-skinned and tender peanuts inside. After one bite, the older ones are crispy and tender, while the tender ones have been boiled soft and powdery, with a fresh smell in the salty aroma. sweet.
Soon, the dining table of Lao Gu's family was full of peanut shells, and the whole family ate to their heart's content.
Gu Mingdong also ate it to his heart's content. The peanuts he grew himself tasted much better than the ones he bought.
"It tastes good. After eating, send some to the third uncle's house and the old house." Gu Mingdong confessed.
The little ones ate some, and soon divided up the work.
Gu Liangchen carried a pot to Uncle Gu's house, and Gu Liangxing followed Gu Yun to the old house.
Along the way, Gu Liangxing was dancing and talking to his sister about what happened in the city. When he saw Gu Yun's lack of interest, he quickly asked, "What's wrong?"
"Are you not telling the truth before blaming me?"
"Actually, we're not sure what will happen after we go. If the Li family doesn't want to talk to us, there's nothing to say."
While explaining, Gu Liangxing comforted his sister: "Xiao Yuner, we didn't hide it from you on purpose, we just didn't want you to worry. Xiao Yuner, are you angry?"
Gu Yun looked up at him: 【I'm not angry. 】
"Then why are you so stern?" Gu Liangxing asked, "Ever since we came back, something is wrong with you, you seem to be in a bad mood."
"Someone bullied you when we were not at home, tell your elder brother, and your elder brother will help you teach him a lesson."
Gu Yun pursed her lips and shook her head.
Gu Liangxing couldn't ask, and wanted to scratch his head.
"What's the matter, why are you upset? Don't you say you want to kill me?" Gu Liangxing said, his forehead lit up, "Xiao Yuner, if you don't say anything, then I can only ask my dad."
"Ask him if someone bullied you while we were away."
Gu Yun became anxious all of a sudden: [Don't go. 】
"Then tell me yourself." Gu Liangxing said with a smile.
Gu Yun was furious, and after a while, she gestured and said: [If my grandfather breaks the law, he will leave here, do I have to leave you too? 】
"What? You want to leave?" Gu Liangxing turned pale with shock.
Gu Yun glared at him: [I mean if. 】
Gu Liangxing hurriedly said: "That can't be done, haven't you already become my father's daughter, how can you just leave."
After speaking, he changed his mind and said with a smile: "Xiao Yuner, is that why you are unhappy?"
Reaching out to mess with her sister's hair, Gu Liangxing laughed and said, "You are our father's daughter, and Ah Chen's and I's sister is Gu Yun. No matter what happens, no one can change this fact."
"It would be a good thing if Mr. Zheng can be rehabilitated. If he wants to leave, he will take you with him. Then we will visit you often. If he doesn't leave, we will raise him as a grandfather, but no matter what So, we are all family.”
"Besides, isn't your grandfather from Beijing? Anyway, the three aunts and four aunts are all in Beijing now. Going there is no different from going to school, don't you think?"
Gu Yun listened, and the dark clouds that had been weighing on her heart for the past two days were also dispelled.
Gu Liangxing patted her on the shoulder and said decisively: "As long as we are a family, we are still a family even in different places. If you see that my second uncle and aunts are not in Shanghe Village, has the relationship between us faded? "
After these words, Gu Yun suddenly became enlightened and couldn't help laughing.
On the other side, Gu Liangchen came into the room with a pot of tender peanuts, and saw Third Aunt Gu leading Gu Ting to mend clothes in the yard. Seeing him, he smiled and said, "Ah Chen is here, come in and have a seat."
"Third grandma, our family has boiled tender peanuts, my dad asked me to bring some." Gu Liangchen laughed.
Uncle Gu happened to come out of the house, and he laughed when he heard this: "Your father always misses us two elders, no matter what good food your family eats."
He took a sip while talking, nodded and said, "This peanut is good, it's soft and glutinous."
"Third grandpa and third grandma, then I'll go back first."
Uncle Gu stopped him: "Wait, Ah Chen, help me bring something home and tell your dad what I asked a few days ago. Now I have a letter."
"Really, then I'll go back and tell him now." Gu Liangchen was also happy when he heard that.
Third Aunt Gu put down her clothes, walked over to have a look, and said with a smile, "This peanut looks good."
As she spoke, she grabbed a handful and gave it to Gu Ting. Gu Ting peeled off one and tasted it, then nodded and said, "It's delicious, Uncle Adong is really nice."
Third Aunt Gu stroked her hair, and couldn't help but say, "You, Uncle Dong, are the only ones willing to make such a disaster."
"It's a child's kindness, you can just eat it, don't nag, it's annoying." Gu Sanshu persuaded.
Third Aunt Gu hurriedly said: "I'm just talking at home, hey, I can't control my son's affairs, let alone my nephew."
At this time, Gu Ting raised her head and said, "Grandma, you can take care of me, I don't bother you."
Third Aunt Gu listened, hugging her granddaughter and crying out for a while.
On the other side, Gu Liangchen had already run home, and when he entered the door, he shouted, "Dad, the third grandpa said that there is news about what you inquired about last time."